This document discusses the potential impact of advanced video technology like 4K and 8K on education in Thailand. It provides an overview of Thailand's policies around ICT and education, including the development of infrastructure like the UniNet network to enhance access and quality. It also examines OHEC's role in promoting ICT adoption and some examples of applications like telemedicine, e-learning resources, and library collaboration systems that utilize the network. Trends around high-speed networks and increased bandwidth to support advanced video are also covered.

1. The
potential
impact
of
advanced
video
technology
on
education
&
education
policy
trends
in
this
area
in
Thailand
Assoc.
Prof.
Soranit Siltharm,
M.D.
Deputy
Secretary-­‐General
for
Higher
Education
Commission,
Thailand

2. Coverage
ØDigital
Economy
Policy
ØICT
for
Thailand’s
education
policy
ØOHEC’s
policy
relating
to
ICT
in
education
ØApplication
of
IT
to
enhance
access
and
quality
of
Thai
education
ØAdvanced
video
technology
(4K/8K)
and
its
potential
impact
on
education
ØEducational
policy
trends
regarding
advanced
video
technology
technology
(4K/8K)
in
Thailand

3. Digital Economy Policy
Digital
Economy
Soft
Infrastructure
-­‐ Privacy
-­‐ Cyber
Security
-­‐ Law
&
Regulations
-­‐ Standard
Digital
Society
-­‐ Digital
Citizens
and
Literacy
-­‐ Quality
of
Life
-­‐ Education
Hard
Infrastructure
-­‐ Broadband
-­‐ Broadcast
-­‐ Data
Center
-­‐ International
Gateway
Service
Infrastructure
-­‐ Digital
Government
-­‐ Paperless
Process
-­‐ Open
Data

4. ICT 2020 Framework

5. ICT
for
Education
Master
Plan
(2011-­‐2013)
ICT for Thailand’s Education Policy
2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Ministry
of
ICTMinistry
of
Education
National
Broadband
Policy
(2011-­‐2020)
2nd Thailand
ICT
Master
Plan
(2009-­‐2013)
3rd
Thailand
ICT
Master
Plan
(2014-­‐2018)
IT
2010
Policy
(2001-­‐2010) ICT
2020
Policy
(2011-­‐2020)
ICT
for
Education
Master
Plan
2008-­‐2010
OHEC
The
2nd
15
year-­‐long
range
plan
on
HE
(2008-­‐2022)
ICT
for
Education
Master
plan
2013-­‐2025
Use
ICT
for
e-­‐Commerce,
e-­‐Industry,
e-­‐Education,
e-­‐Society
and
e-­‐Government
A.D.
New
distance
education
law
(2005)
Digital
Economy
Plan
(2014-­‐present)
Updated
DE
regulation
(2014)
-­‐ Seamless
connection
from
basic
education,
vocational
education,
and
higher
education
-­‐ Emphasize
on
developing
infrastructure
for
lifelong
learning
to
create
knowledge-­‐based
society
The
3rd 15-­‐year
long
range
plan
on
HE
(2017-­‐2031)

6. OHEC’s Policy relating to ICT in Education
According
to
the
2nd 15-­‐Year
Long
Range
Plan
on
Higher
Education
(2008-­‐2022),
OHEC
has
formulated
strategies
on
developing
education
by
focusing
on
using
ICT
to:
v Reduce
the
gap
between
basic
education,
vocational
education
and
higher
education
v Develop
educational
infrastructure
to
prepare
for
lifelong
learning
society

7. Application
of
IT
to
enhance
access
and
quality
of
Thai
education
Source:
https://sites.google.com/site/comchula &
www.techxcite.com

8. Promotion of ICT in education
Ø UniNet stands
for
Inter-­‐
University
Network
Ø Develop
ICT
infrastructure
for
education
Ø Administer
and
support
a
system
that
inter-­‐connects
public
universities
Ø Initiate,
promote
and
support
online
distance
education
in
higher
education
Ø Create
local
and
international
university
network
on
e-­‐learning,
R&D,
learning
resources
sharing
OHEC

9. UniNet was
launched
by
OHEC
in
1995
to
serve
as
academic
and
research
integrated
network
providing
ICT
infrastructure
accessible
by
all
HEIs
across
the
country.
UniNet currently
connects
most
of
HEIs
as
well
as
over
10,000
schools
and
all
vocational
institutions
in
Thailand.
UniNet Framework:
Self
Learning
Center
and
Sharing
Education
Resource

10. Need
for
High-­‐Speed
National
R&E
Network
Type Number of
Institutes
University and
College
> 350
Research
Center/ institute
> 15
School > 30,000
• Optical Network Backbone with DWDM @
N x 10Gbps
• Fiber to the University @ NxGbps
• Fiber to the school @ 10 – 100 Mbps
• Public libraries @ 10 – 100 Mbps
New
backbone
network

11. v Fiber
optic
network
nationwide
(>
66,000
Km)
v Multiple
wavelength
channels
(10
Gbps each)
v Network
bandwidth
capacity
(50
Gbps)
v 122
distribution
nodes
in
the
backbone
network
Current
R&E
Backbone Network

12. Members
of
Thai
R&E
Network
Members Number
of
Members
Universities/institutes 223
Vocational
Education 426
Educational
Service
Area 227
Basic Education
(schools) 9,719
Municipality
Public
Libraries 151
Researchand
other
education 51
Total 10,797

13. Research
&
Education
Collaboration
UniNet
•Seminar
•Research
•Conference
THAILAND
TEIN4
Thaisarn
JGN

14. Network
Utilization
in
2015
Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May June July August Sep
IIG
(International
Internet
Gateway) 36 43 44 46 42 39 40 46 48 55 65 76
NIX
(National
Internet
Exchange) 7 12 14 13 10 9 8 11 11 12 14 16
Research
and
Education
Network 18 31 32 29 33 23 9 30 34 41 48 51
36
43 44
46
42
39 40
46
48
55
65
76
7
12
14
13
10 9 8
11 11 12
14
16
18
31 32
29
33
23
9
30
34
41
48
51
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
IIG
(International
Internet
Gateway) NIX
(National
Internet
Exchange) Research
and
Education
Network
(Gbps)

15. Examples
of
Network
Services,
Applications,
and
Project
Collaboration

16. 48
universities
using
eduroam
@Thailand
eduroam (education
roaming)
is
an
international
roaming
service for
users
in
research
&
higher
education.

17. Tele-­‐Medicine
Thai
side
-­‐ Mahidol University
-­‐ Chulalongkorn University

18. Tele-­‐Consultation
Interhospital Pediatric
Oncology
Conference
in
collaboration
with
-­‐ Phramongkuthlao Hospital
-­‐ Chiang
Mai
University
-­‐ Khon
Kaen
University
-­‐ Ubon
Ratchathani
University

19. Tele-­‐Education
Students
can
attend
virtual
classes
that
look
as
if
they
are
attending
the
same
classroom.
NREN NREN
International
Backbone Network
Real-­time communication
• Contents server
• Access control system
• Contents searching system
Real-­time inter-­university
communication
On-­demand access On-­demand access

20. Tele-­‐Meeting
Meeting
between
community
colleges
nationwide

21. e-­Thesis e-­Journal e-­Learning
e-­Book
Union Catalog
Search Engine
Video on
Demand
Teacher TV
Research
Paper
E-­‐Learning
resources
and
services
Video
Streaming
Content

22. Thai
Library
Integrated
System
(ThaiLIS)
Fosters
collaboration
among
university
libraries
in
Thailand
and
provides
support
&
services
on
academic
contents
Integrated
System:TTTTT

23. Union
Catalog
v Bibliographic
data
of
university
libraries
in
Thailand
3.4
M
Bibliographic
records
located
at
24
university
libraries
v Operated
the
MARC
Standardization
v Distributes
Web-­‐based
Union
Catalog
and
service
for
Inter
Library
Loan
(ILL)

24. q Full-­‐text
collection
of
more
than
400,000
full-­‐text
files
located
by
167
university
libraries
in
Thailand
q Operates
the
Metadata
Duplin
Core
Standardization
q Distributes
Web-­‐based
Thai
Digital
Collection
and
allows
network
users
to
access
full-­‐text
immediately
Thesis
Collection:
Full-­‐text
Service

25. Reference
Database
Project
• Supporting
international
research
database
• Subscription
to
78
member
universities

26. Thailand
Cyber
University
(TCU)
Project
Ø Thailand
Cyber
University
(TCU)
Project
has
supported
distance
learning
via
the
internet
since
2005.
Ø TCU
serves
as
center
assisting
Thai
HEIS
to
use
ICT
to
enhance
education
quality,
and
provide
e-­‐learning
to
people
so
as
to
increase
educational
opportunities
and
support
lifelong
learning.
Ø TCU
has
been
actively
promoting
sharable
Open
Educational
Resources
(OER)
to
Thai
HEIs.
Resources
provided
include
courseware,
learning
media,
e-­‐books,
e-­‐journals,
and
digital
contents
via
www.thaicyberu.go.th
Ø TCU
offers
over
700
freely
available
courses
on
the
website
Ø TCU
also
offers
numerous
certificate
programs
whereby
over
10,000
persons
have
participated.

27. TCU
strategies
To
enhance
the
quality
of
higher
education
through
e-­‐learning
by:
Ø Empower
9
regional
universities
to
be
regional
e-­‐learning
hub
Ø Promote
share
open
coursewaresand
learning
resources
among
universities
Ø Human
resources
development
through
e-­‐training,
organization
of
national
and
international
conferences
Ø Research
for
e-­‐learning
quality
standard
/
best
practice
/
guideline

28. Open
courseware
Learning
resources
repository
e-­‐learning
conference
Open
source
initiative
e-­‐learning
quality
assurance
system
Online
learning
communities
Best
practices
database
Infrastructure
single
account
ICT
professional
development
Research
and
development

29. TCU
uses UniNet which
covers
public
and
private
universities
all
over
the
country

30. Thailand
Massive
Open
Online
Course
(Thai-­‐MOOC)
Objectives
v To
design
and
develop
MOOC
platform
with
standard
guideline
for
supporting
Thai
HEIs
to
provide
MOOCs
v To
support
HEIs
in
developing
content
and
MOOCs
v To
provide
an
opportunity
for
university
students
to
take
courses
from
other
HEIs
both
for
credits
and
not
for
credits
v To
implement
“the
credit
bank
system”
for
transfer
of
credits
from
host
institutions
to
home
institutions
vTo
conduct
research
on
MOOC:
system,
pedagogy,
media,
and
courseware
guidelines
for
providing
MOOC
in
Thai
context

31. Priority
MOOC
Courses
Ø General
education
courses
(for
1st first
&
2nd year
students,
common
for
all
HEIs)
Ø Computer
and
technology
courses
Ø Languages
and
culture
(especially
Asian
countries)
Ø Life
and
health
sciences
courses
Ø Business
administration
courses

32. e-­Library
Open
Educational
Resources
Open
Courseware
Self-­paced learning
Group learning Massive
Thai Massive Open Online Course:
Thai MOOC

33. Thai-­‐MOOC
Ø Thai
government
has
provided
full
support
to
establish
Thai-­‐
MOOC.
Ø TCU
is
the
responsible
body
for
Thai-­‐MOOC
operation.
Ø TCU
has
conducted
a
MOOC-­‐like
course
since
2006,
before
the
term
MOOC
is
widely
used
through
e-­‐Learning
Professional
Certificate
Program
(ePRO).

34. Advanced
video
technology
(4K/8K)
and
its
potential
impact
on
education
Ø Advanced
video
technology
(4K/8K)
-­‐ Feature
• 4K
=
Ultra
High
Definition
(UHD)
• 3,840
x 2,160
pixel
is
the
standard
resolution.
• Requires
faster-­‐than-­‐usual
Internet
and
network
connections
• Requires
new
standards
of
connections
• 4K
is
especially
effective
on
very
large
screens
Source:
www.whathifi.com &
http://asia.pcmag.com/hdtvs-­‐home-­‐theater-­‐reviews-­‐ratings-­‐comparisons/4210/news/what-­‐is-­‐4k-­‐ultra-­‐hd

35. Advanced
video
technology
(4K/8K)
and
its
potential
impact
on
education
Ø Enhance
the
quality
of
teaching
&
learning
in
the
fields
of
health
sciences
Ø Enhance
the
efficiency
of
tele-­‐medicine,
tele-­‐conference,
tele-­‐meeting
Source:
www.whathifi.com &
http://asia.pcmag.com/hdtvs-­‐home-­‐theater-­‐reviews-­‐ratings-­‐comparisons/4210/news/what-­‐is-­‐4k-­‐ultra-­‐hd

36. Educational
policy
trends
regarding
advanced
video
technology
(4K/8K)
in
Thailand
Ø OHEC
does
not
have
policy
to
utilize
advanced
video
technology
(4K/8K) in
Thai
HE
in
the
near
future.
Ø Thailand
is
ready
to
utilize
advanced
video
technology
technology (4K/8K)
in
terms
of
IT
infrastructure
with
the
operation
of
UniNet.
Ø However,
the
contents
produced
in
Thailand
are
not
compatible with
such
advanced
video
technology.

37. Thank
you
ありがとう
Source:
http://digitalmission.us/SchoolOfPromise.html